Tobacco pipe



July w, '1923;

F. E. LASURE:

TOBACCO PIPE Filed Nov. 2e, 1921 Patented July 10, 1923.

UNITEDl STATES inria FLOYD E. LASURE, 0F WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN.

TOBACCO PIPE.

Application led November 26, 1921.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, FLOYD E. LAsURE, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Waukesha, lVaukesha County, Visconsin, have invented cert-ain new and useful Improvements in Tobacco Pipes, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to improvements in tobacco pipes, and the object of the improvements is to provide an effective scraping device mounted removably within the hollow stem of the pipe and connected to the mouth-piece thereof to be operated by the latter and to be withdrawable therewith.

This object has been accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. l is a medial vertical longitudinal section of a tobacco pipe equipped with my improved scraping and draft-regulating means, and Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View of the scraping device, and Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section taken through the bowl of the pipe adjacent the scraping head or disk of said scraping device.

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the. several views.

The bowl of the tobacco pipe shown is preferably composed of three concentric layers of material of different characters, to insure lightness, non-conductivity of heat, as shown at l, 2 and 3, and for other purposes, but this feature is not claimed herein as it is disclosed in my co-pending application.

Said bowl has the usual angularly directed hollow stem 5, the longitudinal hollow 6 whereof being of relatively large diameter and being at its upper forward part in communication with the hollow of said bowl by means of a relatively wide elongated slot .or passage 4. The numeral 7 denotes the hollow mouth-piece of which the forward end is diminished in steps to respectively fit within the hollow rear part 13 of the scraper 1l in the hollow 6, the next step adjacent to said part l0 being .fitted Serial No. 517,964.

r-oclrably within the hollow stem 5, and said mouthpiece having a longitudinal bore or hollow 8 leading into said hollow 6. The scraping` device shown in said Fig. 3 consists of an elongated part 1l whose rear end is shaped with semi-circular parts 13 terminally slightly separated at 14, thus supplying an elastic split-ring which elastically surrounds and clasps the forward diminished end-part 10 of said mouth-piece 7. The forward part of said device is bent downwardly to provide a disciform scraping-member l2, imperforate, and loosely fitting the hollow 6 transversely near the closed forward end of said hollow but slightly forward of the forward end of the elongated draft-passage 4. elongated part 1l of said scraper is positioned immediately below and in registration with said passage 4 except that it is narrower than the passage whereby relatively narrow draft passages are preserved at each side of said part l1. This, ordinarily, supp-lies suflicient draft for the ignited contents of the bowl l, but to provide a w1der passage for more draft, said mouthpiece may be rocked slightly to displace the part l1 sufficiently to more widely open said passage 4.

To remove adherent matte-r from the walls of the hollow 6, the scraper-member 12 may be pushed back and forth through said hollow and be rocked from side to side by proper manipulation of said mouth-piece to which it is attached, the loosened matters being expelled from said hollow when the scraper l2 is fully withdrawn from the stem 5.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

A tobacco pipe, comprising a bowl having a longitudinally hollowied stem, and having an elongated passage in its bottom effecting communication longitudinally with the hollow of said stem, a longitudinally oriiced mouth-piece having an end diminished terminally with its diminished part removably and rockably mounted in the hollow of said stem terminally, and a scraper in said hollow consisting of a bar The medial narrower than the said elongated passage, having one end formed into an elastic `splitring to be enga-gingly secured removably upon the inserted diminished end of seid mouth-piece to be rocked or moved sldably therewith', :ind having ifs" other i`1d-` bent singularly, shaped tol lit the Walls of seid hollow and positioned in said hollow at one end of the said elongated passage unobstruetedly.

Signed at Vaukesha, ViS., this 211th dey of October, 1921.

FLOY LASURE. 

